Sentences with phrase «deadly serious in»

Cattelan's subjects range widely, being derived from popular culture, history and organized religion; while bold and irreverent, the work is also deadly serious in its scathing cultural critique.

What follows is playful, but also deadly serious in a laugh - out - loud way.

It's tempting to attribute the leaden weight of cliché in Possession to some kind of wicked LaBute barb about the zombie - march of most modern romances, but I fear that the film is deadly serious in its Harlequin intentions.

But things are deadly serious in Moscow, where the Selecao play on Friday at the same Luzhniki Stadium in which they hope to lift a record sixth World Cup trophy on July 15.

It now sounds almost like parody, but it was deadly serious in 1990: People were being robbed or even murdered for their trendy sneakers.

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In fact, of course, what actually happens in this next five weeks is extremely important and deadly seriouIn fact, of course, what actually happens in this next five weeks is extremely important and deadly seriouin this next five weeks is extremely important and deadly serious.

Finally, in 1 Samuel 15, we read of a very humorous, but deadly serious story.

She describes A Year of Biblical Womanhood as «a bitter - sweet cocktail of wisdom and absurdity that will charm you, entertain you, seduce you and, finally, instruct you... Funny, droll, charming, and deadly serious, all in one set of covers.»

A covenant made in such a way was deadly serious.

According to Le Parisien, PSG are keen to become serious contenders in the race to sign the 28 - year - old, and they have reportedly begun work to make their dream a reality in terms of pairing Sanchez with Neymar and Kylian Mbappe to form what would surely be the most deadly attacking trident in Europe.

I was being deadly serious whereas anti was not being serious in the least.

Actually SOME THINGS ARE DEADLY SERIOUS AND GETTING IN A MANAGER IN WHO IS IN TOUCH WITH FOOTBALL REALITY IS VERY SERIOUS INDEED, AFTER 21 YEARS!

On Saturday, in a fixture United could ill - afford to lose if they were deadly serious about regaining their top - dog status in England by clinching 12th Premier League title, Ferguson made no less than seven changes to the team which won so convincingly at The Bridge for the visit of Fulham, with the likes of Edwin Van Der Saar, Rio Ferdinand, Michael Carrick and Wayne Rooney handed some valuable respite, though the latter was enforced on Sir Alex as Rooney served the first of a two - match suspension, which could be a blessing in disguise in the long run especially as United cruised to victory with a 2 - 0 win over Fulham in his absence.

This might sound like a joke, but in the grips of my postpartum anxiety (PPA), it was deadly serious.

May is deadly serious about a revolution in Britain's boardrooms.She wants to smash the «cosy club» of highly - remunerated business bigwigs on a revolving door of directorships, remote from shareholders and customers.

In many cases that delay can have no serious consequence, in others the consequence can be deadlIn many cases that delay can have no serious consequence, in others the consequence can be deadlin others the consequence can be deadly.

Knowingly allowing terror suspects to be transferred through British airspace, in order for them to be tortured in third countries and to allow British Agents to gather information from suspects treated in this way, is a deadly serious issue.

When Clegg wrote that pamphlet last week about becoming the main progressive force in British politics, he was being deadly serious.

The rate of early allograft dysfunction — a serious and potentially deadly complication of transplantation — occurred in only 10 % of machine - stored liver recipients, versus 30 % of those allocated ice - stored ones.

In one scorpion species, researchers have found that the arachnids use a relatively weak, but easily produced, prevenom for small jobs such as paralyzing insects and save their deadliest venom for serious work like fending off a larger animal.

While it can be a lifesaving therapy against one of the world's deadliest diseases, bedaquiline can also cause serious side effects in the heart and liver.

Now, a new study led by infectious disease researcher Dr. Sachiko Seo, formerly of Fred Hutch and now a physician at the National Cancer Research Center East in Chiba, Japan, and Boeckh and published last month in the journal Haematologica has found that like more «serious» viruses, rhinovirus can cause pneumonia — and when it does, it can be deadly to those recovering from transplantation.

Astroviruses are not usually deadly, but the new data suggest that they are less discriminating with regard to what they infect than researchers had thought, raising the possibility that different strains could trade genetic material in monkey hosts and give rise to new forms that might cause more serious disease in people.

And if you want to amuse yourself for an hour, look at the first few issues of their journal The Philosophical Transaction, filled with deadly serious experiments and a whole lot of various sort of flakey, gentlemanly figures who sent in all kinds of, well, just observations.

«With the Christmas and New Year celebrations just a few days away, the deadly Ebola virus is said to be raging in several towns and villages in Guinea bordering Nimba, posing a serious threat to lives and normal activities in Nimba County.

7/16/2007 Researchers Discover Key Mechanism to Emergence of Deadly Strep Bacteria The incidence of serious strep infections has risen dramatically in the last three decades, and this increase is largely attributed to the spread around the globe of a single strain of strep known as the invasive M1T1 clone.

For example, the superbug MRSA, which can cause hard - to - treat skin infections, appears to contaminate approximately 5 % of U.S. retail meat; mysterious skin hives or allergic reactions may be a sign of alpha - gal meat allergies; a lack of safety thresholds in U.S. meat for drug residues, toxic metals, and pesticides can potentially result in jaundice and skin cancer; a case of Vitamin A poisoning from fish actually resulted in one man experiencing such serious peeling of his skin it took more than three months to heal; using tanning beds instead of natural sunlight or supplements to get Vitamin D is linked to an increased risk of the deadliest kind of skin cancer; milk consumption has been associated with increased acne risk; and low antioxidants levels in the skin may correlate with the development of wrinkles.

Something about baseball seems to bring out the silly side in moviemakers — even in a movie like The Fan, which starts out well - crafted and deadly serious and seems to have good enough actors and a savvy enough director to stay that way.

So, it is nice to see a film in this vein that takes itself deadly serious with no frills.

But she can also be deadly serious: about #MeToo, Time's Up, and gun control, an issue in support of which she marched through the streets of LA three days earlier.

Superhero send - up Deadpool restores and fully exploits the Canadian - born actor's gift for smartass banter, something he's seemed afraid to utilize in recent years as he's struggled to prove himself as a deadly serious thespian.

The stakes in Beirut are deadly serious, but the film itself is not presented as a major political statement or commentary beyond: The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Finally, special mention should go to Dominic Cooper, who resists the urge to imitate Robert Downey, Jr. (or Iron Man 2's John Slattery, for that matter) as Howard Stark — if anything, his performance probably owes more to Leonardo DiCaprio's Howard Hughes in The Aviator — and instead makes the part his own, pitching the performance as the more worldly counterpart to Steve and a man who, for all his Starkian bravado, is deadly serious about winning the war.

Everything in the film has deadly serious consequences — every smile, every look, and every action of Katniss (the always excellent Jennifer Lawrence) carefully considered and used for or against her, and these stakes, big or small, are pitched perfectly.

But «Hostiles» is no spoof; it's a deadly serious examination of the strained relationship between white men and Native Americans in this country, one that acknowledges the racism and brutality the U.S. Army showed to frontier tribes, while giving a bigoted cavalry officer played by Christian Bale a chance to redeem himself.

The story takes place pretty much where Resident Evil finishes, with Alice emerging from what appears to be some serious experimentation at the hands of the evil Umbrella Corporation to discover that the deadly T - Virus has apparently made its way to Raccoon City, which now lies in shambles.

The deadly serious tone borders on relentless, only letting the occasional humorous line slip in.

The film is easily the funniest, most exhilaratingly ridiculous picture in a year in which Snakes on a Plane aspired to the same camp / cult heights, and it does it the only way that you can: by being deadly serious.

When you watch each of these characters being interviewed, you might think of the movie riffs on speed - dating in which each guy gets a limited time to define himself and moves on to the next — except that Father James hears deadly serious and mordant cries of despair.

But for the first time in a long time, not only does Schwarzenegger star in a film worthy of his name, but one that's way out of his comfort zone, lending considerable emotional depth to the deadly serious zombie drama, «Maggie.»

Our theory is that people actually want both (which is why we try to balance the fun and the serious here in film conversations) and the celebrities that are best equipped to actually deal with tonight's mood are probably the celebrities who are inherently «fun» but can also turn deadly serious without feeling like a buzzkill.

There, she will join Margot Robbie, who plays notorious figure skater Tonya Harding in I, Tonya (though it recently opened the Philadelphia Film Festival, it will arrive here in January), a tongue - in - cheek biography that is deadly serious about presenting Harding as woman victimized by an abusive husband and a media hungry for retrograde female stereotypes.

He successfully mocks suicide bombers in an otherwise deadly serious film.

A cream - pie massacre crosses a line into full - on silliness, and in this ever - so - slightly alternate universe, dick jokes are deadly serious business.

Peter Yates, director of the acclaimed films Bullitt and Breaking Away, has a hard time handling the sometimes jarring mix of zany comedy and deadly serious drama, never really making a real impact in either department enough for the tone to gel.

But for all Watkins» sincere statements that Bastille Day has nothing to do with terrorism, the spectre of 2015's devastating attacks in the French capital looms large over a film that evokes deadly serious subject matter (the Occupy movement, immigration policy, anti-police protests) to no real purpose.

Her great ambition in life, about which she is deadly serious, is creating a new dance craze that will sweep the planet.

After 201's Cop Out, on which Smith and star Bruce Willis butted heads, the filmmaker rebooted himself in a way, crafting a deadly serious drama called Red State.

A few years ago, Brad Pitt was joking his way through World War II in «Inglourious Basterds»; now he's a deadly serious tank commander in David Ayer's «Fury.»

But remember, they have Oscar nominations for dramatic turns, and True Story pits them against one another in a deadly serious game of wits.